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Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes runs from 15 June - 23 September 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. It is the museum's first comprehensive exhibition on Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), and is billed as "the largest...
AMBS Architects reveal their design for the building that will be the center of planned "Youth City" in the Iraqi capital.
Eight months after Hurricane Sandy, and six months before the end of his last term, Mayor Bloomberg unveils a major infrastructure plan.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's inflatable pavilion planned for the museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC, has been canceled.
Diogenes of Sinope was an Ancient Greek philosopher who rejected the amenities of civilized life by living in a barrel in the Agora of Athens. Over 2,300 years later, his name is being used for a 6-square-meter (64-square-foot) living unit designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Vitra.
After backing out and thereby threatening the upcoming New Sculpturalism exhibition, Gehry changes his mind.
Bjarke Ingels Group's design for the Danish toy company's "experience center" aptly resembles a pile of LEGO blocks.
Since its 2007 completion, the Kolumba Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne has sat atop the ruins of the Gothic St. Kolumba church, destroyed in World War II. In Peter Zumthor's design, materiality is of the utmost importance, so the Swiss architect worked with Danish company Petersen...
Peter Zumthor's preliminary plans for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are highlighted in a new exhibition.
The latest pavilion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, opened on 8 June and runs until 20 October.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art closes for three years to realize the Snøhetta-designed expansion.
Four architects—Diller Scofio + Renfro, H3 Hardy, SHoP Architects, SOM—envision new futures for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.
As part of the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is exhibiting three large-scale works including Bang, which immerses visitors amongst hundreds of wooden stools balanced precariously.
Broad Sustainable Building's Sky City is set to start construction in June—with completion seven months later!
We've assembled some of our favorite products, designs, and booths from last week's International Contemporary Funiture Fair in NYC.
The bright pink "Dreamhouse Experience" opened on May 16 to smiling girls as well as protesters.
The rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece is transformed this summer into Aten Reign, one of artist James Turrell's signature Skyspaces.
A European Museum of the Year Award, a new design gallery, and a new metro station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
As we were putting together the awards, competitions, completed buildings, exhibition, and monographs for our biannual Selected News from Selected Architects, one of the projects that stood out is Min | Day's design for the Bemis InfoShop in Nebraska.
The Dutch architect has been appointed Director of the Berlage Center for Advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology.
Workers in Belize partially destroyed a 2,300-year-old pyramid to use the crushed rock for road fill.
A major RIBA exhibition in London presents the architect's five-decade-long career.
To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the second biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs; carefully selected, just like the profiles.
Brooklyn's Gia Wolff is the recipient of the first traveling fellowship open to architects outside of Harvard GSD since 1935.
Switzerland's Studio Zimoun are masters at manipulating space and sound through the use of repetitive elements and kinetic devices. Three recent installations in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland, documented through short films, really convey the sensory qualities that result from...
The Museum of Modern Art has selected Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design its expansion, potentially incorporating the former Folk Art Museum.
The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced the recipients of its 2013 National Design Awards.
Soo Sunny Park's Unwoven Light, on display until August 30 at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, bathes the gallery in brilliant colors via artificial and natural light refracted through the Plexiglas pieces.
Daniel Libeskind beat out Ann Hamilton and Jaume Plensa for a Holocaust memorial at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
On April 25, the new Messe Basel building opened its doors for Baselworld, the World Watch and Jewelry Show, what is the driving force behind the new three-story addition designed by Herzog & de Meuron. With its top two floors perched above a glass base and straddling a roadway, the...
Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall & Conference Centre in Iceland wins 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's sculptures aim to bring a smile to anybody's face. His Rubber Duck is docked in Hong Kong's Harbour City from May 2 to June 9, 2013.
The American-born architect based in London died on April 20 after a short illness.
Architecture and other undergraduate students at the longtime tuition-free school will pay up to $20,000 in yearly tuition.
This short film, edited by ViaViLi (Khaled Morgan and Elnaz Anzalchi), pieces together 20 clips of famous architects talking about architecture. It is a who's who of architects from the dawn of the television to our age of the Internet, spanning from the boastings of Frank Lloyd Wright to a...
On September 19, 2012, the new Folkwang Library opened on the Essen-Werden campus of the Folkwang University of the Arts. The boxy building, designed in a 2006 competition by Max Dudler, holds a 200,000-strong musicological collection behind a translucent skin that looks like stone but is in fact...